Where the Industrial Supply Chain Learns to Use AI

Manufacturers·Rep Agencies·Distributors

Free, hands-on sessions that teach manufacturers, reps and distributors to put Claude and other AI tools to work on the jobs they do every day. Real use cases from your trade, so what you learn works the next morning.

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Each session takes one job you do every week and teaches you to hand it to AI — Claude and the other tools that matter — with real examples from manufacturers, rep agencies and distributors. What you learn works the next morning. Flow makes it faster, but you don't need it to follow along.

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Nov 11Wed · 2:00 PM EST
Flow New Feature Training: Everything shipped in October
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Nov 18
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Win the Line Review With AI

Show every factory exactly what you're worth.

Line reviews used to eat a week of pulling numbers and building slides. Learn to hand your own sales data to Claude and let AI build a factory-ready review — results against plan, specs written, jobs won, and the asks in both directions — in an afternoon. Timed so you're ready before review season starts.

What you'll learn
  • Have AI build a line review deck from your own sales data
  • Use Claude to compare a factory's year against plan and against last year
  • Have Claude show a factory everything you did for them this year: specs, quotes, wins
  • Use AI to write the asks in both directions: what you need and what they get

No Flow required. Already on Flow? A full dashboard set for every manufacturer, built automatically from your data.

Speakers
Curtis Seare
CEO, Flow
Leads Flow, the AI operating system for rep firms, manufacturers and distributors. Works inside rep agencies every week putting AI to work.
Ryan Nokes
Chief AI Officer, Flow
Built AI for some of the world's largest banks and ran Data Crunch, an analytics and machine learning firm, for over a decade. A founder of Flow.
Nov 24Tue · 2:00 PM EST · 30 min
Flow New Feature Training: Shipped in the last two weeks (Thanksgiving week)
For Flow customersRyan NokesTeagan Bleyle
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Wednesday
Dec 2
2:00 PM EST
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Put Your Inbox on Autopilot With AI

Never let an RFQ sit in your inbox again.

Your inbox is where quotes go to die. Learn to have AI sort 50 emails in one paste, pull every deadline and promise into a to-do list, and draft replies that sound like you — then connect Claude to Outlook or Gmail so AI has your inbox sorted before you open it.

What you'll learn
  • Use Claude to sort 50 emails into Act Now, Reply Today, FYI and Junk in one paste
  • Have AI turn a two-line note into a reply that sounds like you
  • Let AI pull every deadline, bid date and promise out of a thread into a to-do list
  • Schedule an AI morning triage so your inbox is sorted before you open it

No Flow required. Already on Flow? RFQs quoted before you open them, every line matched, crossed and priced.

Speakers
Ryan Nokes
Chief AI Officer, Flow
Built AI for some of the world's largest banks and ran Data Crunch, an analytics and machine learning firm, for over a decade. A founder of Flow.
Matias Denti
Flow
Dec 9Wed · 2:00 PM EST
Flow New Feature Training: Shipped in the last two weeks
For Flow customersRyan NokesChris Pezl
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Thursday
Dec 10
2:00 PM EST
HVAC industry panel · Free
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What We Heard at HARDI

A live debrief from HVAC's biggest gathering: what distributors and reps are saying about AI, demand and 2027, straight from the people who were in the room.

Curtis Seare
CEO, Flow
Leads Flow, the AI operating system for rep firms, manufacturers and distributors. Works inside rep agencies every week putting AI to work.
Teagan Bleyle
Rep Enablement, Flow
Came to Flow from an HVAC rep firm after working the desk firsthand. Knows the day-to-day of a rep agency inside out.
Plus 2–3 HVAC reps, to be announced
Wednesday
Dec 16
2:00 PM EST
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Grow Your Territory: Plan 2027 With AI and DISC Forecasts

Find the accounts and the money you're missing.

Stop setting next year's targets off gut feel. DISC forecasts demand for more than 3,100 counties; paired with AI, you'll see exactly where your territory is growing, which accounts sit in the path of that growth, and where you have no coverage at all — then have Claude turn it into your 2027 plan.

What you'll learn
  • Use AI to read DISC county forecasts and see where demand is heading in 2027
  • Have AI find the contractors and distributors you don't call on yet
  • Let AI map the high-demand, low-coverage pockets of your territory
  • Use Claude to turn it into a 2027 plan and targets you can defend

No Flow required. Already on Flow? DISC demand forecasts for 3,100+ counties show exactly where the territory is untapped.

Speakers
Ryan Nokes
Chief AI Officer, Flow
Built AI for some of the world's largest banks and ran Data Crunch, an analytics and machine learning firm, for over a decade. A founder of Flow.
Chris Sokoll
President, DISC
Leads DISC, whose demand forecasts cover more than 3,100 U.S. counties.
Holiday break: no sessions Dec 23 or Dec 30.
Jan 6Wed · 2:00 PM EST
Flow New Feature Training: Everything shipped over the holidays
For Flow customersRyan NokesMatias Denti
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Wednesday
Jan 13
2:00 PM EST
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Use AI to Stop Leaving Commission Money on the Table

December statements, checked live by AI.

Every rep firm is owed more than it collects, and nobody has time to check every statement. We'll take real December commission statements and have AI check them live against what you should have been paid, so you see exactly where the money slips and how to claim it back.

What you'll learn
  • Use AI to check a full month of commission statements in minutes
  • Have AI catch short-pays, missing invoices and wrong splits
  • Let Claude turn every gap into a ready-to-send claim to the factory
  • Build an AI check you can run every month on any statement format

No Flow required. Already on Flow? Every statement reconciled automatically the day it arrives, with the missing money flagged.

Speakers
Curtis Seare
CEO, Flow
Leads Flow, the AI operating system for rep firms, manufacturers and distributors. Works inside rep agencies every week putting AI to work.
Craig Shoaf
President & CEO, NTS · Flow Co-Founder
Runs NTS and co-founded Flow. Will check real December statements live, line by line.
Jan 20Wed · 2:00 PM EST
Flow New Feature Training: Shipped in the last two weeks
For Flow customersRyan NokesChris Pezl
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Wednesday
Jan 27
2:00 PM EST
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AI Meeting Prep

Walk into every meeting knowing exactly what's open.

Customer visits, factory calls, a full trade-show calendar: learn to have AI build a one-page brief for every meeting — who's in the room, the history, the open quotes, what to ask — in seconds. Then let AI turn every conversation into notes and a same-day follow-up.

What you'll learn
  • Have AI prep a one-page brief before any meeting: who's there, the history, what's open
  • Have Claude research a contact or company before you walk in
  • Have AI turn a call transcript or voice memo into notes, tasks and a follow-up email
  • Let AI draft the follow-up so it goes out the same day, every time

No Flow required. Already on Flow? A CRM that fills itself in: every email, call, quote and order logged with zero clicks.

Speakers
Ryan Nokes
Chief AI Officer, Flow
Built AI for some of the world's largest banks and ran Data Crunch, an analytics and machine learning firm, for over a decade. A founder of Flow.
Teagan Bleyle
Rep Enablement, Flow
Came to Flow from an HVAC rep firm after working the desk firsthand. Knows the day-to-day of a rep agency inside out.
Feb 3Wed · 2:00 PM EST
Flow New Feature Training: Shipped in the last two weeks (NEMRA week)
For Flow customersRyan NokesMatias Denti
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Wednesday
Feb 10
2:00 PM EST
Electrical industry panel · Free
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What We Heard at NEMRA

The electrical industry's biggest week in one hour: the trends, the frustrations, and the AI moves top rep firms are making, from reps who were there.

Curtis Seare
CEO, Flow
Leads Flow, the AI operating system for rep firms, manufacturers and distributors. Works inside rep agencies every week putting AI to work.
Ryan Nokes
Chief AI Officer, Flow
Built AI for some of the world's largest banks and ran Data Crunch, an analytics and machine learning firm, for over a decade. A founder of Flow.
Plus 3 rep panelists, to be announced
Feb 17Wed · 2:00 PM EST
Flow New Feature Training: Shipped in the last two weeks
For Flow customersRyan NokesTeagan Bleyle
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Wednesday
Feb 24
2:00 PM EST
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Instant Dashboards, Built by AI

Turn any spreadsheet into answers your whole team can see.

No BI tool, no analyst, no waiting for month-end. Ask your spreadsheet questions in plain English and let AI build a live dashboard — which customers are growing, which are slipping, which lines are winning — published as a link your whole team can open.

What you'll learn
  • Use AI to turn a raw sales export into a dashboard in minutes
  • Have Claude find the customers who are slipping year over year
  • Use AI to clean up messy POS data where names don't match
  • Publish an AI-built dashboard as a link your whole team can open

No Flow required. Already on Flow? Live dashboards on all your data that refresh themselves.

Speakers
Ryan Nokes
Chief AI Officer, Flow
Built AI for some of the world's largest banks and ran Data Crunch, an analytics and machine learning firm, for over a decade. A founder of Flow.
Chris Pezl
Rep Enablement, Flow
Worked at a rep agency before joining Flow. Brings the rep's side of the table to every session.
Mar 3Wed · 2:00 PM EST
Flow New Feature Training: Shipped in the last two weeks
For Flow customersRyan NokesMatias Denti
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Wednesday
Mar 10
2:00 PM EST
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Use AI to Find the Jobs Worth Chasing

Know which jobs carry your lines before anyone else does.

Bid lists bury the jobs that matter under hundreds that don't. Learn to have AI score a GC's weekly bid list for your lines, find where the plans live, pull the schedule out of the plan set, and spot the “or equal” openings — so your time goes to the jobs you can win.

What you'll learn
  • Use AI to score a GC's weekly bid list for the jobs that carry your lines
  • Have Claude pull the fixture or equipment schedule out of a plan set PDF
  • Let AI spot the “or equal” openings for your lines
  • Build an AI-ranked weekly bid board sorted by dollars at stake

No Flow required. Already on Flow? Takeoffs built straight from the drawings, with factory pricing loaded.

Speakers
Ryan Nokes
Chief AI Officer, Flow
Built AI for some of the world's largest banks and ran Data Crunch, an analytics and machine learning firm, for over a decade. A founder of Flow.
Matias Denti
Flow

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